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Hi there! Welcome to my blog—I'm Ally and I'm 31! This is a multifandom blog, so you'll see me fangirling over a lot of things!! Thanks for stopping by and feel free to message me and say hi so we can fangirl over things together! 😊

[prodomius]

[medrawawi]

[russianblush]

Was it a conscious choice for him to always touch Shane's face? That's Connor living in the character.

[ilyaslouis]

Should I show you to your room?

[rosegarden06]

I love them and their silly little dance moves ☺️👯‍♂️

[batmanshole]

crisp glass of water moodboard

[olderthannetfic]

No, no, and NO.

AO3 does not live in “the cloud” because that is other people’s computers, and other people’s computers are vulnerable to censorship.

AO3 is on its own computers. It does still have to be housed somewhere, and I suppose a determined enough hater could try to find that place and go after it, but it’s a lot harder than sending spurious complaints to Amazon or whomever going “BadWrong things are hosted on your cloud service!”

Owning the servers is a core tenet of OTW/AO3.

[zz9pzza]

Warming up a new database server….

[elfwreck]

When people involved with AO3 talk about “the cost of servers” they don’t mean “the cost to pay Amazon for space on their servers.” They mean, like, the cost to physically own them, and eventually replace them with new ones. And the operating costs to run them.

AO3 is not “in the cloud.” AO3 is stored on physical machines that the OTW owns.

While this is not a solution that can work for everyone who wants to deal with controversial content, it is why AO3ple sneer at alt-righters who complain about getting thrown off hosting platforms.

[crowns-of-violets-and-roses]

I Want Us to Own the Goddamned Servers

Because I want us to own the goddamned servers, ok? Because I want a place where we can’t be TOSed and where no one can turn the lights off or try to dictate to us what kind of stories we can tell each other.

[lierdumoa]

AO3 is what a website looks like when you seize the means of production.

[my-dailydreams]

[flodaya]

newly-weds flirting: spidey press tour europe edition (x)

[cuppydogshane]

connor storrie's character acting choice to make ilya kiss like someone who eats pussy like crazy

[young-waverer]

For me, this is what stuck out. Do any of those stand out as big moments for you?

[mina-logan]

Happy fingers in his mouth Friday. In honor of such an occasion here’s a redraw of THAT sketch.

[epistleii]

idk man. i just think itd be really cool if sign language classes were mandatory throughout primary school. yeah because it would make communication with deaf kids and autistic/nonverbal kids much easier. and those kids would be accessible to the others so they could make friends and have healthy relationships. yeah. and kids would eat that shit up man. like their own little secret language? they love that.

[quicktimeeventfull]

it is genuinely bewildering to me that adult human beings do not know this but if you are mean to people they will not like you. like tbh they are probably also not going to like you if you are mean to other people but they are definitely not going to like you if you are mean to them. it doesn’t matter if you are funny or if you can use r/aita rules to prove that you are in the right. people simply do not enjoy being treated like shit.

[gaynehollander]

Imagine how difficult of an adjustment it will be for Shane and Ilya to not only be on the same team but to never actually share the ice (except on the power play). They're stuck watching their man be far and away the best player out there without the distraction of being mid-play themselves and they've lost their outlet for channelling all of their sexual tension into something reasonably acceptable for audiences. Imagine the fan edits of them just sitting on the bench, chewing on their mouthguard, while shooting obvious fuck-me-eyes at the other. Ilya's urge to check Shane into the boards is unreasonable. As soon as Shane gets on the ice he shoots off like a bat out of hell to burn off his excess energy. They can't even fucking look at each other in the locker room. As soon as they're home Ilya is throwing Shane up against the wall as hard as he would have done if they were both wearing pads. Those first few months they both acquire more bruises off the ice than on it.

[themoonandmyman]

Fat baby Shane is by all accounts a wonderful thing to behold but can we take a moment to think about Baby Ilya…

His hair when he was a toddler being bright blonde, tight curls falling over his face and the biggest, bluest, saddest eyes you’ve ever seen. You know those babies that look like they’re seconds away from crying at all times? Except for the occasions where Irina does something to make him laugh and he has the dirtiest little giggle like he knows a secret no one else knows and he’s planning world domination with it.

And his smile is this thousand megawatt thing thats only matched by the one on Irina’s face when she looks at him.

From 6 months old he’s nearly walking and has insane fine motor skills (like Baby Shane) and he’s constantly getting into trouble- I can’t imagine Grigori being tough on childproofing. ‘If ilyushka touches the hot stove, he will know not to touch it again.’ (He never learned this.)

He’s also incredibly fast at learning how to talk, whereas Shane was a little slower. As soon as he learns how, he never stops. Never stops asking questions, endless curiosity over the world around him. Also very disruptive in pre-school and prone to fights over crayons.

[twobabkas]

How did we let this happen? We were both very stupid and irresponsible. This is real though, right? Yeah.